IT IS just after eight in the morning and Chelsea, a young mother from Fort Wayne, Indiana, looks grey with stress as she drops her child at Glenwood Park, an elementary school in the city’s north-east. Like many in this drab rustbelt city, she used to rely on school buses to pull off an elaborate daily ballet, involving her mother, a niece and others, to get her children to and from classes. But as this academic year begins, budget cuts have forced Fort Wayne to take scores of school buses out of service. When lessons resumed about 7,000 pupils found themselves without a bus ride. The changes make getting to work “a lot harder”, says Chelsea, steering her ageing Chrysler around a new three-lane access loop at Glenwood Park, built to handle the extra car traffic.These bus cuts are more than a local drama. Look closely, and Fort Wayne’s woes point to a larger debate about how to pay for and supply public services. Today around half of all American schoolchildren—about 25m—ride an estimated 480,000 school buses to lessons. But school districts across the country face cuts to their transport budgets. Some voters, notably older folk, say they are not fussed. Such oldies grumble that today’s children are soft if they need busing about, claiming—to quote a Republican state representative from Indiana—that they walked miles to school each day even in deep snow, and “uphill both ways”. But among younger voters, especially parents, school buses remain popular. Paying for them is less popular.In this section
ReprintsIndiana offers an early glimpse of a trend that is only set to grow. The state’s problem is that school buses are financed by property taxes. In 2008 state legislators passed property-tax caps, which may only be broken if local governments or school districts can win referendums to fund specific projects. Voters liked the tax caps enough to enshrine them in the state constitution in 2010, making them hard to reverse
2nd day, 2nd shift: quant 28, reasoning: 27, verbal: 23. Found paper ws moderate+ level, due to trickier and lengthier quant, and surprise element in reasoning in the form of m/c input output. Verbal was also towards moderate+ level. Cut-off won't cross 65, i strongly feel.
i felt that the paper is of moderate level as there were few surprises in the form of lenghty quant(especially tabular DI ),5 M/C i/p,only 3 inequality,only 1coding decoding and 1 tricky puzzle(square arrangement),moderate RC & cloze test.
I am worried about my accuracy in English.Also I shouldnt have attempted RC as it consumed my time.
I strongly feel that the cut off wont cross 60.(as they have to select atleast 650*15=9750 in the worst scenario)
hey guys, i attempted 72 in nia ao phase 1- 30eng, 17 quant, 25 reasoning and got through general category,
Then today at 8 jan 8 am shift in ippb, attempted 76- 30eng, 19 quant, 27 reasoning, my accuracy- 100% in quant, almost 100% in reasoning- maybe one or two syllogism wrong, english expecting no less than 25,
I am saying all this cause cut off might not be very high for ippb cause of obvious reason of more number of seats in comparison to nia ao and do not worry from those who have attempted 80s and 90s, i have seen them fall flat when the D day comes calling,
So if you had good accuracy and you had attempted even 70, you have as much chance as any of 80s and 90s guy.